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Poohbah70
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December 14, 2019
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Crabbe & St. John in a Shadow of a Western
Buster Crabbe (Billy Carson) and over-the-top comedy relief sidekick Al St. John (Fuzzy Jones) in half a western, half a St. John farce. Crabbe comes to Red Rock to clean up a bad guys type problem - the town barber, Sheriff and Justice of the Peace are all St. John - and if you can buy that, you can live with any kind of absurd western action. Charles King, every cowboy hero's favorite punching bad leads the bad guys, with Frank Ellis and others as henchmen. Donna Dax provides the pretty face here - IMDb says she almost died in a 1932 car accident but went on to appear in 6 movies between 1941-46 abd is credited only in this one. Nothing great here.
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February 5, 2014
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7/10
This film features a lot of Fuzzy. He's seemingly everywhere in this film.
A fairly pleasant way to spend an hour.
Reviewer:
Spuzz
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February 20, 2006
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Buster Crabbe Cowboy!
Well, heres something I didnt know, aside from making laughable serials, Crabbe also made quite a number of westerns. Here, in the amazingly titled Shadows Of Death, Crabbe is presented as the King of The Wild West (??) and that he and his partner, affectionately (Im sure) named Fuzzy (theres always a sidekick in these westerns that wind up with a stupid name) are presented as Our Old Pals. Whatever you say Mr. Movie! Anyways, Crabbe arrives into town to help his friend Fuzzy with a suspicious individual who may or may not have murdered a courier with some important documents to widen a town. Theres also a feeble love interest in there somewhere for good measure.
All in all, this Western was certainly passable, it was certainly surprising to see Buster Crabbe in something else than Sci-Fi, and he actually looks comfortable in a cowboy hat. The plot is not bad, but I could have liked a little less stupid comedy from Fuzzy.
All in all, not bad.